Grumpy Old Grumpy Old Men

(a)    Why do the pinkoes at Google think they have to change the foremat for composition and posting processes on the blogspot.com system?    Is there a  "no sleeping dog left un-kicked" policy that is universally enforced by all pinkoes and leftists?    Is there some bastard son of Ernesto Guevara who works late at night and finds out that the Gringo Viejo is comfortable making his rants and grumbles with the same crummy system that he has used for 327 years?    Is is (Sir Edmund) Hillary I,  Eternal Queen of the Universe and the Duchess of Chappaqua?  Is it Eric Holder, working under orders from Father O'bamaham?    Before long, after a person realises that the entire world is out to get him, he becomes a bit paranoid.....or quadranoid.

     In any regard,  yesterday we were attending a bit of a parade, celebrating the founding of one of our locale's early industries.....grapefruit production.   It is the 75th anniversary of the event so in keeping with the theme of diamonds and such they decided to have a Mardi Gras theme in order to celebrate grapefruit and diamonds.   Such is the living proof of the usefulness of committees.    It was pleasant enough, however.

      The low point of the episode was when we went into the supermarket to by some inconsequential this-or-that and fell in behind the people in the express check-out.   Turned out there was a committee at the check out and they were sending members out to refine their wish-list of selection.   After about 5 minutes of waiting around on their coming and going, going and coming, debatinig about whether a 202 ounce Mountain Dew would be better than six 2-liter Coca Cola and would it be better to have ten mega-bags of Doritos and 20 tubes of Pringles or maybe just the 40 pound industrial strength jalapen~o Frito bag.....a non-nourishment-challenged girl searched through her several Lone Star Cards (automatic food stamps in Texas) and finally decided to ask a female relative for one of her cards...and they paid....finally...the sum of  $26.44. 
     I had to restrain my poor wife.   She had to restrain me....Even the cashier was angry and depressed.   "Please help me, I have to see this all day everyday at this store."....His words helped us calm down a bit.

Earth to Newt....Earth to Mitt...Dust Bin of History Approaching

Newt was right.    When he asked the CNN interrogator about wasting time with questions about things other than presidential level policy alternatives.    So, one can assume that   Newt likes irrelevancy when he wants to have a hissy-fit about whether or not Romney has stock in this or that company or a bank account in Switzerland or the Caymans,  or any number of other mind-numbing, pointless matters.

Mitt Oreck
for President

     Newt,  IT'S REALLY NOBODY'S BUSINESS.   Your private income is not my business, Romney's is not my business, Mrs. Gluberstiens's income is not my business.   If there is something illegal about the method of gaining income, about the method of investment,  some day it will come out.    You were the one who was floating (aka: kiting) checks during your time as a United States Congressman.   In fact, your taking advantage of zero-net-negative-checking-account-innovative- personal-financing ranked you up at second place as a privilege abuser.

      And, Mitt....Your presentation of Newt's lobbying for Freddie and Fanny is patently untrue.  A government consultation contract of 1.6 million dollars was not a payment made in cash in some dark alley....composed of used and un-marked 5 and 10 dollar bills.   Furthermore, as you know, the money was turned around in payment for office lease, salaries for clerical people and researchers, and telephone and computer connections, insurances, and all the other paper clip and toner things involved in running a doctor's office or a consulting firm.     That is was a waste of government money goes without saying.    Franklin Raines retirement bonus of 60,000,000.00 dollars was also a bit of an invasion of the exchequer as well, but at least Franklin did absolutely nothing for it save for successfully deleting all of the White House emails from the 1994 through 2000 period.   That's when Franklin was White House Communications Director.   Then Clinton appointed him to head the Freddie quagmire.   Quid pro crook....

     The point of it all is that you both should be named Oreck.   Mitt Oreck and Newt Oreck.   Or maybe Hoover.   Newt and Mitt Hoover.   Because your childish sitting in a muck-slump and pouting and snivelling over totally pointless personal details has demonstrated that neither of you is qualified in the final analysis to be president of the Welcome Wagon Committee.   You remind me of two sophomore girls in the dorm cramming for finals while suffering PMS and pimple outbreaks.

Newt Hoover, GOP Candidate

for the Presidency

While suffering their problems they begin to fight over which one of them will get to have first access to the make-up mirror in the morning.   That is the discomforting image that El Gringo Viejo has of the two of you.   During their next encounter, perhaps we can be treated to a mud-wrestling match with the two of them dressed in cheerleader drag.

     This is not what we were hoping for when we were told that you both were "aspirants"  for election to the office of the Presidency of the United States of America.   Instead of being "aspirants", you both turn out to be "aspirators" instead.     It becomes necessary to reiterate ones support for the best available candidate in the mix, and that would have to be Sen. Santorum.    He is the only one who understands that we do not need any further "adjustments" or "temporary debt ceiling authourisations" .   The Republic is running at 28 knots in the Adriatic....in the dark.....near the shoals....near an island named Giglio.

     The display presented by last night's "debate" leaves a person rather much like surviving a shipwreck.   Gee, I'm alive....but nobody knows where we are and we have these other idiots here on the same un-charted island....Gilligan, Mary Ann, Thurston, Tina, the Professor, Mr. Howell....

Thanks for putting up with the ever-optimistic
Gringo Viejo 



Lunacy of Leftists

(歌舞伎

One of the Old Gringo's favourite kabuki dances is the one liberals and other marxists pull off on the "waiting for a Republican to say anything about public assistance" game.

Tim Scott is congratulated by supporters at his victory party

in North Charleston after winning

the seat of the 1st Congressional

District in North Charleston, South Carolina

    "We must strive to address the disintegration of the family" becomes something that Maxine Waters calls ...."an insensitive racist blame-game used by Republicans to divide America".

      The next day, this or that "official" spokesman for this or that aggrieved "minority" group trundles to the microphone after the big official government meeting concerning institutional poverty and declares, "The failure of President (Reagan, Bush, Nixon) to move quickly to address the issues of hunger, poverty, and family stability is a form of racism of the worst sort.   It is intended to destroy a race of people by starvation and neglect.   A child cannot learn if he is not fed.   A child cannot learn if he has no place to lay his head.   A child cannot learn if he is dead.  The racist "Klanners in Pin-stripes" are killing the future of the (enter minority) by not providing the most basic necessities that are the right of all children....the right of all people....to have."

      Republicans put forth the silly notion that a two parent family....a man and a woman, perhaps....raising a family selflessly and working one or several employments or running this or that business....is a better format to apply in the quest for spiritual and material comfort.  Then, Sheila Jackson Lee waddles out to remind people that the GOP is the bastion of racism because they will not even approve a huge increase in (food stamps, school lunch, emergency diapers, section 8, WIC,  AFDC, public housing, free legal, medicaid....add infinite etceteras).

Col. Allen West, Florida
Republican Congressman

     So, public welfare and assistance programs, if mentioned by Republicans becomes a euphemism for a racial slur.    If they are mentioned by leftists, Democrats, and marxists, they are the measure of a certain right to reparations for the oppressed darker skinned masses.

     

Dr. Thomas Sowell
Certifiable Genius

   One need only compare the appearance of Black and Latino Republicans to the images presented by people such as Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton       One need only listen to Negro conservative commentators and compare their logic, facts, construction of thought, and presentation to the likes of Jesse Jackson and Mayor Nagin and recognise that the cure for poverty is obviously to become an African American who is also a conservative and perhaps associated with the Republican Party.     My racism is showing, perhaps, when I understand and agree with Herman Cain, Col. West, J.C.Watts, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, and several hundred thousand more.   Those several hundred thousands will be integral in leading many millions out of the desert of political and cultural slavery in the years to come.
      The notions the mainstream media and the professional race slugs have about "minorities" will ultimately fail.     The "community leaders" and "community organisers" are like the gang members and labour unions, as they imitate in their tactics, trying to force the "poor" and the "minorities" into gulags of dispair, to be used as cannon fodder in the cultural war to destroy America.    It will take a while, but the Kabuki Theatre will collapse upon them

      Please forgive the use of the word "kabuki".   Kabuki is among the most impressive theatre arts and a tribute to the advanced intellectual and artistic ability of the Japanese people.    
     And, remember to pay your fair share.   We have already filed and are awaiting Father O'bamaham's largesse to twinkledinkle a few of his generous farthings upon those of us in that percentage who actually pay income tax.    Abolish all income and inheritance taxes.
El Gringo Viejo

Southern, Crockett, Whig, and Confederate

     El Gringo Viejo recuperated long ago from brain-strains caused by his peculiar political and philosophical positions.   He retreated into the intellectual wigwam of his ancestry, his people in Tennessee, and took the advice of one of those people.     This advisor from beyond the veil spoke to many....both contemporaries and those who would dwell in Earth's future....by instructing them to "Be sure you are right, and then go ahead".

     David Crockett would not have fit into this day and time.    He was a showman, like Wild Bill Hickock, and an orator/humourist like Will Rogers.   He was a rustic man of the Smokies and the mountains of Eastern Tennessee.   He was also among the sharpest political and cultural analysts of his generation.    He gained fame as an Indian Fighter, and was also one of the foremost defenders of the Nations of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Cree(k), and other Indian peoples.  He was a Republican of sorts in that he was a member of the prototypical Republican Party, known as Whigs, at the time.    This placed him in the northern, industrial, and banking political group although his personality and loyalty was distinctly rustic, traditional, and individualistic.    While there is some question about his ancestry, it can be assumed by his colour that, like many white people in the South, he had one or two strains of Indian blood.
     He informed people of his "evolution" as a conservative politician having been provoked by a Tennessee farmer.   While out visiting constituents one day, Crockett came upon one of his supporters, Horatio Bount, pushing his mules in the black soil of Franklin County, on the back side of the Smokey Mountains.   Crockett stopped and waved-ho the farmer who reined down his team and put them at rest.   The farmer walked over to the rail fence and shook hands tepidly with the famous Congressman and said nought.   Crockett sensed that there was some recalcitrance dwelling inside the farmer's soul, and immediately sought to plumb his motives.   He enquired of the health of the family and the major animals of the farm, and after receiving the briefest of answers, finally asked,"What seems to be the problem, Horatio?   Is there something we need to take care of?   Something I can do?"
     The farmer elbowed onto the rail fence, and leaned into an instructive pose, "Yes, Davy, there is a problem.   The news came by the paper that you all met in session and heard the plight of a widow who had lost her husband.   She's a known lady in the Washington area, and everyone was moved by her new problems....having children and accounts to pay and all."
      David Crockett brightened up, and interrupted a bit,"Yes, yes Horatio.   You're talking about Widow Baker, she was in a tight way and we voted her a goodly sum to dispel her cares.   It was a great amount for her but less than a copper for the Republic.   You can be sure that we took care of her.   Yes sir."   Crockett beamed with pride over this quick disarming of the issue.     But, his broad smile did not last long.   Horatio, the farmer, continued to look down and was shaking his head in the negative.
     The farmer took off his hat, and beat the chaff off'n his leg a bit, and then responded, "Well, Davy, here's the problem.   I am sure that the widow woman is a lady and that she had a cause for help.   It was good to help her.   But there is a wrong here, and you were part of it.   If you and your Congress friends felt so moved to help this woman, then you should have taken up a collection from among yourselves....or held a social....or informed the various churches and asked for a portion...or any number of other things.    It is not right, moral, legal, or in any way correct for you and your Congress friends to take money from people in Tennessee or New Hampshire or Pennsylvania and give it to anyone as a matter of charity...no matter how distressed that person is.   It is not your money to give.   Had you begged a dime from every Negro, a half-dollar from every wealthy man within 20 miles of that poor woman, she would have had a willingly given estate of several thousand dollars.    But, you chose to raid the national treasury and displace the Samaritan with the will of a messenger carrying his master's money and spending it in a saloon.    The messenger feels good for a moment, perhaps, but he is committing an evil."
      David Crockett was left with nothing more to say, save for this promise, "Jesse, you have spoken well.   I shall return to the Congress and place my share of the award to replace the money and I shall attempt to compel my colleagues to do likewise.   Your words have cleared my mind as to the nature of my duties, and I thank you."

(This is not taken from a "wire" worn by the farmer Horatio Bount.  It is solid lore and something that was passed to El Gringo Viejo by his grandfather.   The writer's mother was born in Franklin County, Tennessee which was the residency of David Crockett and his family during his service in Congress and from whence he left to go to Texas.   The Gringo Viejo's mother's family settled into the area of Franklin County during and shortly after the time of the Revolutionary War.   While the above conversation was not personally heard by the Gringo Viejo or his family members, he can hear his grandfather telling and re-telling the same story many times and in the same accent and rhetorical composition as might well have been used by Horatio and David.   El Gringo Viejo has to this day many, many 2nd and 3rd cousins living and buried in and around Franklin County, Tennessee.)

     Crockett left the Congress, tiring of the hypocrisy of his own party concerning the lack of compliance with the Indian Treaties and in utter disgust of the vicious, dictatorial nature of Andrew Jackson.   It is probable that he and Samuel Houston both came to the same conclusion about Jackson....Houston being a close personal friend of the Old Hickory....and like many Tennesseans, they decided to plight their troth with Texas.    Like many, he thought that it would be a great final adventure to move his family to that golden place and establish a new future for his children and grandchildren.
      It is thought by many people that Crockett was an unwilling participant in the issues that confronted him in Texas.   He was used to being comfortable among people of different races and extractions, being in contact with Negroes and Indians on a very close basis.   But, once in Texas, he found that he was confronting another Andrew Jackson, but this time in the form and presence of one Generalissimo Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.   He walked into a fight, that like back home, pitted the Centralists (led by Lopez de Santa Ana) against the local control liberal federalists (Zacatecas, Coahuila, Texas, Yucatan, Durango, Jalisco, Morelia, and many, many other entities) who were supporting the Mexican Constitution of 1824.   It was that Constitutionalist tri-colour that flew over the Alamo that enraged the Mexican dictator to unreasonable military measures that indirectly led to his losing a war that he had already won decisively.
     This is not to say that he was not a fighter at the Battle of the Alamo.   It is almost certainly the case that he was a fallen hero.   That he went down swinging "Old Betsy" and waiting for Buddy Ebsen to come riding up with reinforcements is very doubtful.   Best indicators suggest that he was spared by elements of the 2nd Batallion of Combat Engineers...known as the Segundo Batallon de Zapaderos, a truly heroic and militarily correct group....and brought as a prisoner to the presence of Lopez de Santa Ana.    Before the commanding general could speak to Crockett and two Latin Alamo defenders, several particularly effeminate lesser officers fell upon the two Mexican Texans and Crockett and hacked them to death with their parade sabres.
    According to Lt. Col. Enriquez de la Pen~a, XO of the 2nd Sapper Batallion, who had respect for Crockett and the other fallen in the actions of March 6, 1836, he included the above observations in his accounts of the battle.   His unit was the first to bridge the Sacred Walls.   He also wrote a long, detailed account of the war in Texas and was bitterly critical of its conduct by a person he considered to be a vainglorious fool.   He wrote:
     

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

The diversity of opinions expressed concerning the Texas campaign; the accumulation of lies told to falsify the events, published in national as well as international newspapers, but especially in the latter, and the cheap adulation have rendered to the men least deserving of it; the ignorance, stupidity, and cruelty displayed by the ministry and the commander in chief of this war; the honor of the army, unjustly censured even by its own members, who without adequate knowledge have superficially or inaccurately passed judgement; the honor and self-esteem of every military man who participated, so deeply hurt by the inaccuracies in the official records as to dates, deeds, and places; and above all the honor of the country, deeply compromised by its leaders and no less by the truth and the atrocity of its crimes – these are the principal causes which compelled me to publish the diary I kept during the time I served in this unfortunate campaign. 

     The "Disney" historians would not like for this to be revealed, and others who prefer a hollow myth to the hallowed truth resent the telling of the true story.   The Lieutenant Colonel's account....lengthy, over-flowery like other writings of its type at the time, and detailed have been challenged.   But it becomes increasingly clear as the years go by that his accounts are true....his charges of war crimes, incompetence, corruption, and cover-ups by the Generalissimo and his lackeys have steadily....like tales from the Bible....become more and more plausible.    El Gringo Viejo finds his writings, having read them in both the original Spanish and in translation, to be veritable and worthy of regard as truth.
     Enriquez de la Pen~a's description of timings, unit movements, results, the weather and climate and geography, the support of the Anglo-Irish to the south in Texas and the opposition among the Latins in the northerly parts of Texas....among many other things....point to his veracity.   He regarded Crockett's death and the two Mexican defenders deaths as murder.
      This winding account of very small moments in Col. Crockett's life shows, perhaps, a better understanding of the thought processes of a typical Southern, Confederate, Crockett, Whig.   The typical Democrat....the typical leftist....the typical stereotyper who accuses us of stereotyping while portraying us gleefully as Beverly Hillbillies....has neither the depth of understanding of history nor the native intelligence to truly comprehend things like the Tea Party movement, philosophical conservatism, or the difference between private charity and welfare.
The Gringo Viejo feels better now...for a little while.    Thanks for your time.
El Gringo Viejo
    

People are Watching, We shall overcome the madness.

     People are watching.   We shall overcome.....the madness that has been manifested by the Occupy movement.    We are including a poignant, perhaps even brilliant observation about the soul, or lack thereof, of the movement.

     Sometimes, original unpublished poets need to be recognized by all available outlets.   This is a Facebook-type entry written in observation of the first filing for major office by an Occupy slug.  The place is Phildelphia.   It is for the office of United States Representative.   The slug is filing in the Democrat Primary against an incumbent Democrat, so we know pretty much that we are dealing with a terribly depressed area.    The poem is written in prose form.   It is profound.    The Poet is, like El Gringo Viejo, not at all impressed with the Occupy personalities or purposes.

The girl is not carrying the Che banner
But we could tell that right away anyway

El Gringo Viejo has named this work

ODE TO THE OCCUPIER
by Matthew Clarke

Here is a OWS Dude. He's the guy on the street with the nose rings,
      the dreadlocks and the lice.
He's the guy in Starbucks making coffee because it's the only job he can get with his degree in Art History.
He doesn't always have money for rent or food but he always has money for weed.
He rents a dingy studio apartment with a window on the sidewalk level.
Bums sleep on his steps and wee-wee on his sidewalk window.
He doesn't seem to care.
He doesn't even notice the smell.

He's the guy that rides a bicycle everywhere he goes because he can't afford a car.
He has to keep replacing the bicycle because people like him keep stealing it.
He has no mechanical skills.
He has no administrative skills.
He has no trade.
He is a vegan, too weak from malnutrition to work at any kind of physical labor job;
     not that he would take one anyway as tha...t kind of work is beneath him.
He despises the military and law enforcement.

He has an upside down American flag taped to his sidewalk window...
     right next to his marijuana flag.
He hangs out with other leftwing losers who blame their innumerable failures in life on
      people they've never met and know nothing about.
He's always borrowing money from someone but never pays them back.
He gives them some weed instead.
He's never contributed time or money to any civic project yet he constantly criticizes his
       community.
He fully immerses himself in anything leftwing.
The more these leftwing organizations bash America, the more rabid he becomes.

Despite his leftist fervor, he is always on the outside looking in.
He's a loser and even the leftwing losers that tolerate him think he's a loser.
He's never been able to become part of their leftist clique, no matter how much he bashes
     America.
When he gets old and is unable to support himself he will turn to welfare.
He is a parasite.

When his life is over he will have contributed nothing but hatred and bigotry to the
      world.
He will be buried in a state owned lot at the taxpayers expense.
Maybe one or two of his dealers or customers will stop by for the funeral service.
So long, OWS bum.

AMEN

 

     We stress again that this is not the Gringo Viejo's poem.   He is jealous.   And also recommends it as required reading for all children aged 12 and older.    
El Gringo Viejo.....

Anticipation Is Making Me Wait

We are waiting in this household to hear the inspired words of the Beloved Leader.   It will sound something like this:

     America has been a dump where only the rich are happy.   No one has had a chance until I came here after the rich people drove us into the ditch.   The Republican Congress still stands in the way, but we will take care of that in November.   They have stood in the way of us passing a balanced budget for three years now, but in November we will have the votes to make certain that the richest among us....the millionaires and billionaires....will finally have to pay their fair share.    No more subsidising their wealth, no more secret tax rates that only they know about; from now on, we will be the ones telling them what they are going to pay.    We will finally have a level playing field.   We will be the ones who have....and they will be the ones who have less.

     For too long America has been an extension of the plantation mentality.   It was a country established by slave holders, accustomed to being waited on, accustomed to making other people wait in line while they took the first pickings at the good life.   Now, with our new tax rate of 66.6% not only on the earnings of the wealthiest two percent...but also on the evaluated value of their estates while living....we will see a new day where minorities become empowered to full, rewarding lifestyles, free medical services, free food and lodging, and free entertainment options.  All will qualify except for the richest two percent.

     I have established an executive order clearance procedure which will, from this day forward, authourise the abolition of the electoral college along with the right of abeyance in the case of any disagreement my government has concerning outcomes that are not desirable.  We extend this right of abeyance to any decision made by the supreme court  that is not in keeping with the overall objectives of the administration.

     It is time that we become serious about social democracy, income equality, and other such basic human rights.  For instance, we have ordered Fannie and Freddie to immediately take possession of those domiciles that are designated as "vacation homes" or "second homes" and to make them available to historically discriminated people.    We have a ten point program that will build on this first initiative and details will be released after we have begun the implementation of that program.   Suffice it to say, there will be no more mansions of billionaires and millionaires with space going to waste when there are so many children  sleeping under expressway overpasses.

      More could be said, but you people are not really capable of understanding.   So, we'll just go ahead and say...."welcome to democracy".